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` CARRIAGE. NQ. 505,234. Patented Sept. 19, 1893.

Wma-est- UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT SCHRDER, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,234, dated September 19, 1893.

Application filed. August 5, 1893. Serial No. 482,460. (No model.) Patented in Germany April 26, 1892, No. 65,318.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, ALBERT SCHRDER, merchant, of Hamburg, in the German Empire, have invented anew and usefullmprovement in Carriages, (for which I have obtained patent in Germany, No. 65,318, dated April 26, 1832,) of which the following is a specilication.

This invention consists in a carriage in which the front part ot' the carriage body is The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, Figure l being an exterior side View and Fig. 2 a plan of the carriage having the intermediate part in its upper position while Figs. 3 and 4; show the carriage in section with the said part in its lower position. Figj is a rear view corresponding with Fig. 3.

A is the front part of the carriage body with the front seat s which rests upon the fore carriage a. Y

B is the rear part of the body on the frame h; and C is the intermediate part displaceably arranged and connecting A and B. When pushed up C and B can be used together as their respective bottoms c and d form one plane for instance, in such a way that the walls C and B carry seats s which are left out in the plan view Fig. 3. The seats s are made accessible by the door t at the rear. The fastening of the portions A, B and C to each other may be eftected in any suitable way and does not form part of this invention.

In the present case beneath the frontA and rear part B, two pairs of framesZ with oblique slits are arranged which guide the intermediate part C by means of pins n. Each of these pins n carries a nut fr engaging on a screw-threaded cross rod u (see Fig. provided with right and left threads. Thus these nuts with the pins can be simultaneously moved toward the `middle of the carriage or in the contrary direction (outwardly). When the screw-threaded cross rod is turned by means ot a key fitted on the square heads at the ends ofthe said rod and the nuts r are thereby caused to move along the screwthreads on said rod, the pins u move in the slits t' and the intermediate part is respectively raised or lowered. It is preferable to apply in both extreme positions of the part C another ixing arrangement to assure a safe connection of the parts A, B, C.

The lateral walls c and c2 of the part C may either be constructed so as to form doors or so that they can be taken away.

In the position ot' Fig. 3a Victoria or phaeton7 seat is produced by combination of the parts C and B, the bottom d forming the seat and c the foot rest. To impart to this seat a more elegant exterior a comfortably arranged stuffed seat S may be put in the portion B, corresponding to `its form, as shown in Fig. 3.

What I claim as my invention is- The-construction herein described for the conversion of a carriage with rear length or side seats into one with rear cross seats, said construction being characterized by an intermediate piece C displaceable in its position of height and connecting the fore carriage A with the rear carriage B, this intermediate piece for length or side seats being inits highest position and for cross seats in its lowest position substantially as herein set forth.

ALBERT SCHRDER.

Witnesses A. SCHAPER, H. BOBZIHNN. 

